*    UP High School (1916-1972) . . .
                *    UP Preparatory School (1954-1973) . . .
                *    UP Comprehensive High School (1972-1973) . . .
                *    UP High-Preparatory School (1974-1975) . . .
                *    University High School (1975-1976) . . .
                *    UP Elementary School (1936-1976) . . .
                *    UP Integrated School (1976-to date) . . .

    In the course of its organizational evolution,our Alma Mater has demonstrated that it has both the flexibility and the vision to adapt to changing needs and circumstances. Thus, in the process, it has been enlarging its role not only as a laboratory and service school for the University but also as an institution  uniquely suited to conceptualize and experiment on basic education programs that may later  be instituted on a national scale.

    In 1916, the UP High School was established as a laboratory school of the UP College of Education for the practice teaching of the BSE students. It offered a general secondary education program.

    In 1936, the UP Elementary School was established as a service school for the children of UP personnel. it eventually assumed a laboratory school function for the BSEEd students of the UP College of Education.

    In 1954, the UP Preparatory School  was established by the UP College of Education as a college-preparatory program with emphasis on science and mathematics.

    In 1972, the UP High School was renamed UP Comprehensive  High School. It maintained its laboratory school function, but the emphasis of the curriculum was placed on the electives program.

    In 1974, the UP High School and the UP Preparatory School were merged as UP High-Prep. This was an offshoot of the streamlining  of the UP organizational structure which called for the merging of units that were offering duplicate or similar programs. It was renamed as University High School in 1975 with a combined academic-vocational program.

    In 1976, the University High School  and the University Elementary School became the UP Integrated School, offering the Kindergarten to Grade 10 continuum. It was envisioned to fill the additional role of helping develop new curricular programs for basic education in this country. Thus, its implementation of a work oriented curriculum was identified  in 1976 as one of the impact projects of the University. It is interesting to note that the proposed Secondary School Curriculum of the Department of Education and Culture in 1989 contained features similar to the experimental curriculum tried out at the UPIS.

    As mandated by the University,  the UPIS has maintained  its functions as a service school  and laboratory school, plus it has become an "experiment in democratization."  UPIS admits students of different abilities  and from different socio-economic classes in consonance with its policy of democratized access to the University.  The graduates are classified as to college eligible, vocational-technical school eligible, and employable.

    One of the reasons why the UPIS opted for a population of wide-ranging abilities in 1977 was to simulate the population of a general public school. Thus, whatever innovation it would undertake would be applicable to the latter.

    What does the future have in store for our Alma Mater? Change is the essence of growth and progress -- which means we have not yet seen the end of its odyssey.